Borderlands 4

Months after its release, this game is by far the worst piece of trash I have ever booted up in my 20 years of gaming. Gearbox CEO should be absolutely f**** ashamed of himself. What a pathetic piece of work. ABSOLUTE garbage trash optimisation is one thing, but the list of "compiling shaders episodes" is absolutely F**** disgraceful

Played the free weekend and it is exactly what people describe so far. While open-world has its charm, it is a definite downgrade from their previous well-crafted sectioned-off world areas. The main story was reasonably entertaining but all the side quests (of which there are many) feel very much like the classic mmo grind. Another review mentioned that you should not play this BL version the same way as the previous games where you can do all the quests in an area or within a storybeat before moving on with the main story, here you should just follow along with the main story and pick up a few side quests/challenges here and there because otherwise it becomes incredibly boring, and I could not agree more with that statement. Another point I did not enjoy was immediately getting 4 special ways to move around; double-jump-ledge-climbing, glide pack, target-based grappling hook, and an on-demand vehicle. While convenient to actually get around in the larger open-world, it did not actually enhance the experience at all in my opinion. the double jump had no reason behind it, not like in the pre-sequel where you have you space-suit, you can just double jump because it is neccesary to make getting around not too tedious. The glide pack and grappling hook have so little use besides some movement-puzzles that I tend to forget I even have them, only being able to use the grappling hook on pre-defined targets greatly limits its fun and use. Vehicles were always part of the Borderlands experience but they were part of the world, having to pick them up at garages, also still having to walk through non-car-designed areas. With this on-demand vehicle you never actually have to walk anywhere in the world ever again, you just zoom over to a gunfight where you either use your vehicle weapons or jump out to fight, and then you summon it right back onto the next gunfight, making it an endless loop of just zooming and shooting, making the battles incredibly boring and repetative and making the density of interesting things in the world much lower. Rant over.